It took Maverick Antcliff three years to record his first win as a professional; it has taken just seven days to secure his second.

Antcliff shot back-to-back rounds of 6-under 66 over the weekend to win the China Golf Tour’s Shenzhou Peninsula Open by four shots on a leaderboard dominated by Australians.

After a superb 7-under 65 in the opening round, Jackson Dick led at the halfway mark before finishing tied for sixth with Bryden MacPherson fifth and New Zealand’s Kieran Muir tied for second.

Kevin Yuan and Kade McBride rounded out those to finish inside the top-10 in a tie for ninth with Cory Crawford two shots further back in a tie for 17th.

Following his win at the season-opening Bo Ao Open a week ago, Antcliff opened with a 1-under par round of 71 at the Tom Weiskopf-designed The Dunes Golf Club in Wanning, Hainan.

Out in 2-under 32 in the final round, Antcliff was tied for the lead with China’s Jin Cheng but took a stranglehold on the tournament with an eagle at the par-5 10th.

He followed it up with consecutive birdies at 11 and 12 and all of a sudden had a three-shot cushion with just six holes left to play.

His second bogey of the round came at the par-3 15th but he steadied and added another birdie at the par-4 17th for a comfortable winning margin.

Fourth at the Asian Tour’s Bangabandhu Cup Golf Open in Bangladesh just three weeks ago, last week’s breakthrough professional win saw Antcliff move up from 488 to 354 in the Official World Golf Rankings and will likely enjoy another significant jump this week.

China Golf Tour
Shenzhou Peninsula Open
The Dunes Golf Club, Wanning, Hainan
1             Maverick Antcliff              71-69-66-66—272            ￥126,000
T2           Kieran Muir                      72-67-67-70—276            ￥52,266
5             Bryden MacPherson        74-71-64-70—279            ￥28,000
T6           Jackson Dick                    65-69-71-75—280            ￥24,325
T9           Kevin Yuan                       71-68-69-74—282            ￥18,900
T9           Kade McBride                  70-71-71-70—282            ￥18,900
T17        Cory Crawford                   75-69-68-72—284            ￥10,850
T32        Hayden Beard                    71-77-74-67—289            ￥4,007
T43        Connor Edmonds              76-71-71-73—291            ￥2,730
T47        Jarrod Stirling                    74-74-72-72—292            ￥2,251
71           Fraser Wilkin                    73-74-78-75—300            ￥1,722
MC         Michael Pearce                 76-76—152